Geography 2010A/B Lecture 6: GEO2010 Lec 6 .docx
27 Apr 2015
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It has always been the economic engine of the country but in 2009 it received equalization payments from the federal government for the first time ever: area: over 1 million square km; larger than most countries, northern ontario (cid:224) only 7% of population lives in northern ontario, weather, summer (cid:224) hot and humid, winter (cid:224) invasions of arctic air masses bring cold temperature and bitter wind chills, vegetation (cid:224) southern ontario has over half of the highest quality agricultural land (class. Historic settlement in ontario: the french founded the first settlement in 1749 across the river from detroit and named it petite cote (this is present day windsor, d"etroit = the strait (body of water connecting 2 lakes, late 1700s (cid:224) british loyalists began settling throughout southern ontario, tension between britain and u. s. resulted in several battles (war of 1812, this ended the influx of american settlers, ontario (cid:224) iroquoian word meaning beautiful water .
